IDC Research Types
Analyst
Analyst Profile
Provides complete background information on an IDC analyst. Each profile provides a biography, a notable quotation, a frequently asked question relevant to the particular analyst's focus, and a list of research authored by that analyst.
Team Profile
Lists the analyst members of a topical team. Outlines general areas of coverage and any specialties.
Briefs
Flash
Provides rapid IDC insight and analysis about a significant industry event or conference, merger or acquisition, product announcement, or other fast-breaking news affecting the IT market.
Forecast Update
Provides a short, quick look at an updated forecast and the changed assumptions behind the update. It updates a market forecast published in the same calendar year, identifies changed and key forecast assumptions, and highlights actions for participants to consider in light of the changes.
IDC Insight
Provides coverage and analysis of an industry event, new product or service, or a company announcement or development.
Update
Provides brief overview coverage of what is happening in a market.
Vendor Profiles
Provides a concise, hard-hitting profile of an emerging vendor. A profile will highlight new players and technologies and the potential paradigm shifts or disruptions a vendor represents.
Daily Graphics
Daily Graphic
Illustrates IDC's keen analysis of major market trends in downloadable PowerPoints. Available as a free download the day it appears, an IDC Daily Graphic provides valuable material for speeches and strategic planning.
Event Proceedings
Event Proceeding
Provides published slides, audio, and other materials from IDC and Insights Web conferences, briefings, forums, or other events.
Events
Conference
Delivers dependable, relevant, and high-impact data and insight to help organizations make sound business and technology decisions. eBusiness executives, IT professionals, IT suppliers, and services suppliers benefit from the strategic insight and networking opportunities IDC conferences offer. Generally, all presentation slides are available online, and for most conferences, streaming audio of key discussions is available as well.
Web Conference
Focuses on significant trends and paradigm shifts. Each Web conference will provide attendees with leading-edge market information that will enable them to make smart business decisions. For those unable to attend in person or those wishing to review the content presented, these synchronized multimedia presentations are available online.
IDC DecisionScapes
IDC FutureScape
Serves as a framework for IT/tech professionals' IT strategy and planning for the next one to three years. It lists IDC's top 10 worldwide technology trends for the coming one to three years in a given research area and includes related drivers, projected IT/business strategy impact, and guidance.
IDC MarketScape
Helps IT/tech professionals develop a short list of suitable suppliers when selecting a vendor. Provides an unbiased assessment of tech suppliers in terms of offerings, strategy, capabilities, and other important factors in a given technology area.
IDC MaturityScape
Describes five stages of "maturity" or capability for a particular technology area, helps IT/tech professionals understand where their organizations fit within those stages, and provides guidance on key components for planning successful improvements to a tech initiative.
IDC MaturityScape Benchmark
Helps IT/tech professionals to benchmark their maturity against peers, develop a business case for a tech initiative, and build consensus about where critical IT investments should be made. Presents quantitative research results that show the market distribution for a given tech initiative across the five stages of maturity presented in the related IDC MaturityScape. Shows the results and components of particularly successful initiatives.
IDC PeerScape
Gives IT/tech professionals insight into best practices (and practices to avoid) by providing specific use case examples implemented by peers. Identifies practices that have the most impact on the success of a tech or business initiative, and provides actionable guidance for each practice.
IDC PlanScape
Helps IT/tech professionals to justify and plan a business and/or technology investment or opportunity by exploring why, what, who, and how (these are also the main section headings). Presents key players, critical success factors, risks, and actions to consider for a designated technology and/or business management area.
IDC TechScape
Helps IT/tech professionals with developing IT strategic plans and evaluating emerging technologies in terms of their risk to the business. Shows the adoption curve and risk levels over time for a specific emerging technology. Sorts technologies into three "adoption model" categories (transformational, incremental, opportunistic) to help tech leaders determine the potential impact for their organization.
IDC Links
IDC Link
Provides timely context and insight around important market trends and events in a short opinion piece. IDC Links provide IDC's point of view on:
- Financial announcements
- Product announcements
- Mergers and acquisitions or divestitures
- Events
- Response to news
Insights-only Research
Best Practices
Correlates the use of specific practices and superior performance as indicated by an analysis of the benchmarking database. Highlights any significant differences between industries. Conclusions provide a set of process priorities for improving a business case and advice on how to overcome change management issues.
Business Strategy
Helps buyers to assess their business strategies and/or associated business processes, especially as they relate to the use of technology.
Methods and Practices
Provides a step-by-step description of a method or methods that can be applied. As appropriate, the report may compare the benefits and drawbacks of several methods.
Perspective
Presents an article written by an Insights analyst on a topic of special interest to a target audience. This information has generally already appeared in an industry publication and is repackaged for display on the Insights Web site.
Vendor Assessment
Helps buyers select the right IT supplier. The report helps buyers understand the various providers of a technology by providing analysis on market landscape, vendor profiles, vendor market share, and vendor assessments.
Pivot Tables
Pivot Table
Presents an interactive spreadsheet tool for analyzing trends and activities in a specific market segment. These tables are available only through an annual subscription service.
Predictions
Top 10 Predictions
Provides bold, well-conceived market predictions grounded in solid methodologies, primary research, and analyst experience. Lays out a clear road map to understanding major market opportunities and trends.
Presentations
IDC Presentation
Provides the latest, select CIS forecast data, primary research survey findings, and critical IDC analyst opinion in a succinct, easy-to-digest PowerPoint format.
IDC Survey
Presents a hypothesis about what is happening in the market backed by the results of a demand-side or supply-side survey. The focus is on interpreting and analyzing the survey results and providing a strong point of view along with actionable advice.
IDC Survey Spotlight
Answers a timely question and provides a strong opinion backed by IDC survey data. This is a quick nugget of information that is presented in two concise PowerPoint slides.
Insights Presentation
Provides an easy-to-use format to post on the Web presentations that were previously delivered at public forums (such as conferences and events) or for internal client meetings and client presentations. It may not come as part of a consulting/custom engagement.
Market Analysis Perspective
Delivers a concise current state view of a market and insight into the impact of future trends. Business executives, product managers, and MI/AR professionals can use this information when looking to understand buyers' perspectives and market impacts.
Press Releases
Press Release
Announces significant corporate news, such as key hirings or promotions, performance milestones, event highlights, or speaking engagements.
Product Information
Fact Sheet
Describes a research product. Usually details the major areas of coverage and deliverables, and outlines key questions and competitive market conditions that the research will address. Includes links to all published research for a research product.
Studies
Competitive Analysis
Provides a detailed accounting and review of a vendor's programs, processes, products, service, satisfaction, and/or strategy in a target market. This knowledge helps clients reduce their risk of losing market share or enhance their position over the competition.
Customer Needs and Strategies
Focuses on the important decisions that business and IT professionals make every day.
Industry Developments and Models
Provides a detailed assessment of a specific target market's expansion pattern. This analysis helps clients develop and deploy the right mix of value-add products, programs, or services to support their sales and/or partnering efforts.
Market Analysis
Provides an in-depth examination of the dynamics and future of a single market or a group of related markets. The Market Analysis is where we will typically present our forecasts and assumptions, using a key forecast assumptions table.
Market Forecast
Provides the future of a single market or a group of related markets. It presents a new or updated market forecast, including key drivers and assumptions used in the forecast.
Market Share
Provides data on market size, regional allocations, and platform splits as well as a summary of vendor shares for the most recently completed period (year, quarter).
Special Study
Provides a onetime study produced by a research group that is not published as a deliverable under a subscription service.
Survey
Provides a study and interpretation of the results of a demand- or supply-side survey.
Taxonomy
Highlights and emphasizes how IDC tracks the market while also making it easier for customers to find and identify IDC Taxonomy documents.
Technology Assessment
Provides an analysis of the intricacies of an emerging or established technology or the technologies contained within a specific product.
Vendor Needs and Strategies
Provides an in-depth analysis of a company, a small group of companies, a division of a company focused on a particular market, or a best practice that the company exemplifies.
This IDC Market Note discusses five significant announcements made in early 2021, four of which are specific to the database technology markets and one is more general. These announcements point to maturation and consolidation of IT (in ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a glance at the landscape of vendors playing in various segments of the IoT application development and deployment market. It includes vendors that offer IoT-specific software suites, as well as vendors that ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a snapshot of the current data-driven policing landscape globally, including the definitions of the major segments of the market, the structure of the market, and the vendors within each segment.
This IDC Survey presents the results of IDC's European IoT Decision-Maker Survey 2020, focusing on some key differences across European vertical markets. This survey assesses the current and planned deployment of IoT projects, including ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a graphical view of open source software projects associated with key system infrastructure software and application development and deployment software technologies. It includes representative open source ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a segmentation of technology solutions and technology and services providers being deployed and adopted by organizations to drive enterprise intelligence.
Red Hat's acceleration of the move positioning CentOS Linux as an upstream community distribution that is a precursor for subsequent Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases, not surprisingly, has ruffled some feathers in the CentOS community. ...
Oracle announced new features in marketing, sales, and service applications within Oracle CX that extend the use of AI and automation and improve integration between CX products that will help enterprise customers improve personalization ...
This IDC Pivot Table examines the performance of the server microprocessor market through several market views. For the period 1Q16 through 4Q20, unit shipments and revenue by vendors are included as well as unit shipments by processor architecture, ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of SaaS and cloud-enabled spend analysis software solutions and discusses what criteria are most important for companies to consider when selecting a system.
"Spend analysis solutions are moving ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of SaaS and cloud-enabled sourcing software solutions and discusses what criteria are most important for companies to consider when selecting a system.
"Sourcing solutions are becoming more cognitive ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of SaaS and cloud-enabled contract life-cycle management software solutions and discusses what criteria are most important for companies to consider when selecting a system.
"Contract life-cycle ...
한국 IDC 김경민 수석 연구원은 "2019년 국내 소프트웨어 시장에서 활동하는 사업자들은 디지털 트랜스포메이션 추세속에서 증가한 소프트웨어 인프라 최적화, 지능화 그리고 클라우드 수요를 기반으로 매출 성장세를 보였다."며, "그 과정에서 클라우드 플랫폼 업체, MSP, SI 등 다양한 사업자들과의 파트너십을 통해 클라우드, AI, 애플리케이션 현대화 등을 기반으로 한 산업 전반의 디지털화를 지원하기 위한 준비를 한 것으로 ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of SaaS and cloud-enabled supplier relationship management software solutions and discusses what criteria are most important for companies to consider when selecting a system.
"Supplier relationship ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of SaaS and cloud-enabled procure-to-pay software solutions and discusses what criteria are most important for companies to consider when selecting a system.
"Procure-to-pay solutions have become ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of SaaS and cloud-enabled procurement software solutions and discusses what criteria are most important for companies to consider when selecting a system.
"Procurement solutions are evolving rapidly ...
This IDC Market Presentation describes the latest update of IDC's Best Practice Partner Engagement Framework, which is a market intelligence asset that consolidates IDC's insights on partner programs and partner engagement strategies. It ...
This IDC Market Glance provides an overview of the sectors that supply tools and resources required by enterprises to build digital innovation capacity.
This IDC Perspective discusses customer-360 data platforms that focus payers on the data architecture, data management, workflow of ingestion, mapping, cleansing, codifying, and verifying data and the activation of the data for applications, ...
IDC最新发布的《中国企业级应用软件SaaS市场，2019》中显示，2019年中国软件即服务（SaaS）市场份额已经达到31亿美元，同比增长43%。2020年受到疫情的影响，增速有所放缓，预计市场份额将达到41亿美元，但是从未来五年的增速来看，中国的企业级应用SaaS市场的增长势头依旧保持不变，以33%的年复合增长率增长。此报告以2019全年数据为基础，主要介绍了中国企业级应用SaaS市场的主要发展动态、竞争格局以及未来发展趋势。通过这份报告，读者可以清楚了解到中国企业级应用SaaS市场目前发展的状况及未来主要发展趋势。
IDC企业级系统和软件研究部高级研究经理徐文婷表示：“在2020年的疫情背景下，对比传统软件的部署模式，SaaS的优势更加凸显，因此，疫情反而促进了中国SaaS市场的增长。但考虑到有些行业，例如服务、线下零售等中小型企业受到疫情打击较大，SaaS市场的增速会放缓，但到2021年下半年基本会回到原来的增速水平。对于中大型企业来说，疫情加速了其数字化转型的进程，云计算又是数字化转型的基础，所以很多中型特别是大型企业开始接受公有云SaaS的部署模式，这也将成为中国SaaS市场未来的主要驱动力量。对比中小型企业，中大型企业的业务类型更为复杂，这就给中国的SaaS厂商提出了更多的挑战，如何提升技术研发能力，特别是平台即服务（PaaS）的能力，是未来中国SaaS厂商重点考虑的发展方向。
...IDC最近发布的《2019下半年中国企业级应用软件市场跟踪调研报告》中显示，2019年中国企业级应用软件市场规模达到56亿美元，同比增长22.7%。主要的驱动力来自于云计算的快速发展以及企业数字化转型的需求，随着云计算的快速发展，企业对企业级应用软件即服务（SaaS）的接受程度也在大幅提高，特别是中型企业；因此，云计算是未来中国企业级应用软件市场发展的主要推动力。本报告从中国宏观经济影响因素开始，逐步为读者分析中国企业级应用软件市场的未来发展趋势以及主要的竞争格局。
在本报告中，IDC将中国企业级应用软件分为两大部分，一部分是客户关系管理应用软件（CRM），其中包括销售自动化管理应用（SFA）、事件营销管理应用（MC）、客服管理、数字化商务以及广告营销等应用；另一部分是企业级资源管理应用软件（ERP），其中包括财务应用、人力资本管理应用、企业资产管理和供应链管理等应用。
IDC企业级系统和软件研究部高级研究经理徐文婷表示：“云计算（SaaS）和数字化转型是中国企业级应用软件市场未来主要的发展驱动力，2020年的疫情影响倒逼企业重新思考数字化转型，加速了其数字化转型的进程，而云计算作为基础是企业实现数字化转型的关键。企业未来不仅仅关注内部运营效率的提升，更加关注外部协同的高效性，因此，具备有社交属性的CRM、云化的供应链管理等应用是企业未来的主要的关注领域，这就为中国的企业级应用供应商提出了很大的挑战，既要加快相关云原生产品的研发和迭代速度，同时要满足企业不同规模的个性化需求。不仅要成为企业的产品提供商，更要做企业数字化转型的合作伙伴。”
...This IDC Market Glance provides an overview of the vendors participating in the Internet of Things ecosystem.
This IDC Market Glance provides an overview of vendors participating in the edge infrastructure market. As demand for edge solutions accelerates, a wide variety of companies have developed technology and services across several categories ...
This IDC Market Glance provides an overview, definitions, and sample participants in the digital automotive and transportation strategies ecosystem. This presentation is an update of the prior published version from 1Q20.
This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation is a reference guide to the role, usage, and representative vendors in the data marketplace market. Both data sellers and data buyers are very interested in the potential of data marketplaces to bring greater ...
This IDC study presents the vendor share of the Japan big data and analytics (BDA) software market based on its performance in 2019. IDC divides the BDA software market into three major submarkets, which are further divided into 16 functional ...
This IDC Survey document presents results from IDC's European Internet of Things (IoT) Decision Maker Survey, conducted in October 2020. The survey probed European organizations’ adoption of IoT solutions and plans for adoption in the context ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a framework for vendors selling analytic solutions into the healthcare market. New in 2021 is the addition of the business intelligence and analytics vendors that have a presence in healthcare as well as other ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines the growing importance of cloud-native databases in the data management software market. It includes an explanation of "cloud native" versus "born in the cloud," looks at the evolution of cloud-native ...
This IDC Survey presents results from the U.K. segment of IDC's European IoT Decision-Maker Survey. This survey assesses current and planned deployment of IoT projects, including benefits and challenges, impact of COVID-19 on IoT plans, ...
This IDC study assesses the capabilities and strategies of prominent asset performance management (APM) vendors. It aims to aid manufacturers in deciding on their current or future APM implementations, as well as to assist vendors in deepening ...
This IDC MarketScape assess the capabilities and strategies of APM software vendors utilised in the mining industry to optimise the operation of assets across the entire mining value chain. The software does this by recording and analysing ...
On December 10, 2020, Oracle announced its fiscal 2Q21 earnings. Here are the top financial highlights for the quarter (all growth rates are presented in constant currency terms):
- Total revenue for the first quarter was $9.8 billion, ...
本調査レポートでは、IDCが定義する顧客エクスペリエンス（CX）関連IT市場について国内市場動向の調査結果を述べる。IDCでは国内CX関連IT市場を「企業が顧客エクスペリエンスを差別化する目的で選択するデジタル戦略、技術、ビジネスプロセス、サービス提供を遂行するためのIT製品／サービス群」と定義している。新型コロナウイルス感染症（COVID-19）の感染拡大によって加速した消費者／ビジネスバイヤーのデジタルシフトや顧客デジタルタッチポイントの拡大は、企業におけるデジタルCX向上に関する課題の重要性を押し上げ、CX向上への本格的な取り組みを促す契機となった。CX向上への取り組みは、企業の事業活動を顧客中心に捉え直し、最適化することで企業内の生産性向上への要求と顧客のDX化への対応を両立させる手段である。また、この取り組みは企業のブランド向上／差別化による顧客のロイヤルティ向上／LTV（Life ...
This IDC Market Presentation is an executive summary of IDC's 3Q20 Cloud Pulse, with a focus on cloud vendors, loyalty, and trade-offs.
Cloud Pulse provides an overview of cloud adoption and cloud trends among IT buyers. Cloud Pulse ...
This IDC study focuses on the evolution of application development to deliver solutions leveraging the serverless compute architecture that dramatically reduces the overall cost of infrastructure while allowing developers to focus on business ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a glimpse of the current makeup of the customer intelligence and analytics landscape, including the segments and structure of the market. Customer intelligence and analytics is a part of the overall customer ...
This IDC study provides an assessment of the principal retail merchandise operations management solutions and discusses what criteria are most important for companies to consider when selecting a vendor.
"Modern merchandise operations ...
This IDC Survey Spotlight identifies the key suppliers of customer journey management software in Europe. It is based on data from IDC's EMEA European Software Survey (conducted October and November 2020). This EMEA ...
This IDC Market Presentation examines the year-over-year changes in the overall datacenter infrastructure ecosystem during the fourth calendar quarter of 2020 — notably servers, storage, and networking equipment. It also provides competitive ...
This IDC Market Analysis Perspective (MAP) provides big data and analytics (BDA) software technology vendors with an overview of the BDA market, offering the information required to support planning, market intelligence, competitive intelligence, ...
This IDC Pivot Table examines the performance of the server microprocessor market through several market views. For the 1Q16–3Q20 period, unit shipments and revenue by vendors are included as well as unit shipments by processor architecture, ...
The IDC Market Glance provides the highest-level view of the healthcare IT landscape for 4Q20. The major categories and vendors identified in the document include infrastructure, core transaction, clinical and financial risk management, ...
This IDC Market Glance provides a high-level view of the current makeup of the supply chain execution ecosystem, illustrates the vendor landscape, and depicts the segments and structure of the market. A supply chain's foundation and ability ...
This IDC Market Presentation presents datacenter processing for 3Q20. This presentation was presented to clients of IDC's Enabling Technologies: Processors and Architectures research program after the market results from the third calendar ...